compete and that the effect of health on competitiveness differs with socio-economic background. Health has a strongly …

Studying competitiveness and risk-taking among Jeopardy! contestants in the US, this paper analyzes whether and how … (aged 13–17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We measure competitiveness via the likelihood of (i) winning an …

document that increased competition for university places at elite institutions in the United Kingdom contributes to explain … growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK …

here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness …

Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for …

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …

correlations of cognitive skills in Germany are roughly the same or slightly stronger than those found by previous studies for … Germany seem to be considerably higher than the ones found for the U.S. Hence, skill transmission does not seem to be able to …